Boris Scholl
Vice President Engineering, Software Architect - Cloud&AI, Microsoft
Boris Scholl is listed as Vice President Engineering, Software Architect - Cloud&AI, Microsoft. Boris is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 20 November 2026.
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About
Boris Scholl is a Vice President and Architect with Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Engineering team in Redmond, WA, where he leads strategy for modern AI frameworks, distributed systems, and agentic computing platforms. His current work focuses on systems that enable heterogeneous agentic platforms, bringing together AI agents, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and distributed runtime capabilities. Since late 2005, Boris has worked across Azure, AI platforms, and developer tooling in a range of product engineering leadership roles. He rejoined Microsoft in 2018 after spending 18 months outside the company leading an engineering team building a Kubernetes- and service-mesh-based microservices platform. His work in cloud and distributed systems has resulted in several patents. Boris is a frequent industry speaker, blog contributor, instructor on distributed computing topics, and lead author of several books on cloud and edge computing.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Build portable applications with Adaptive Apps Speaker · 20 November 2026
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